Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. | | | | Michael Mando in star making turn as Nacho Varga on Better Call Saul.
(AMC) | | | | |  | “Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”
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| | rantnrave:// BETTER CALL SAUL has some of my favorite characters on television. JIMMY. MIKE. GUS. HECTOR and now NACHO (played by an absolutely stellar, MICHAEL MANDO). It's a role with very few words and lots of great looks. And his sigh, what a great sigh. Love it. If I go deep and extrapolate, Nacho is WHITE HOUSE staff, TRUMP is Hector. Thoughts? And great quote and TV ad upfront nod from JIMMY MCGILL on this week's episode: "TV commercials get calls"... The GIG ECONOMY. Logistics. Delivery services. All of these things have made my life easier. Certainly, in AMERICA, we seem to work longer hours. But the day is still 24-7. UBER, DOORDASH. POSTMATES. TASK RABBIT. All of these things give you more time to work (or more important, time to relax). I spend most of my time in LOS ANGELES these days. I've tried INSTACART for my groceries. On the surface, it's a great service. A choice of grocery stores. You pick one or more. Large catalogs. Shop. Schedule delivery. Done. Right? Nope. The service shows the available product but often things are out of stock. OK, fine. But when you order a list of things that are represented to be in stock you depend on it. Yesterday, I ordered. I also go throw every single item and mark to not replace it if not available. I like what I like and I'm brand loyal. Without fail, every single time, many items aren't available. Where's the inventory management? The just-in-time stocking at the store level? So, yesterday this happens. Then I start to get the alerts of the refunds for out-of-stock items. But the shopper also starts to text and call me. Trying to replace items that I already said not to. Driving up the bill and the service fees. I'm sitting in a meeting, and I'm being accosted like my Mom used to when the NEST I bought her would disconnect from the internet. "Mom, what did you do before I put it in, you walked to the thermostat." Anyway, It devalues the brand and the service. Then I have to go shopping for all the missing items at BRISTOL FARMS (which sort of rocks, btw). So now I'm not saving any time. I've paid a service and delivery fee ($21 on a $175 order). I could have gone to Bristol Farms for everything and saved the fee. The service needs improvement. Better information coordination with stores. It's a 1st world problem, you bet. This is a critique, not life threatening. But yesterday sort of sucked on a national level, so I occupied myself with this. I just want the good to be great and value for my dollar. That is all... TWITTER can be like a pride on a new kill. It was a lot of fun yesterday... In the mafia, if you vouch for someone and they turn out not to be "one of us" or a "goodfella" you get a dirt nap... I'm trying to sigh more than I grind my molars... Welcoming DAVID KRANE to the MGM board... Yeah, this freaked me out... Breaking News: MITCH MCCONNELL to play MR. POTTER in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE remake... Not enough white guys in the GOP... DUNNING–KRUGER EFFECT... If someone takes the time to explain a grievance in a passionate and constructive way, hear them out. Whether you agree with it or not, they feel that way. And that's a reality... Consideration. Dependability. Dedication. Patience. Empathy. Trust. That's all I'm asking... That meteor isn't going to hit us. It will turn left or right. But it's not going to hit us. It just looks like that way... JOHNNY DEPP: "It's my money. If I want to buy 15,000 cotton balls a day, it's my thing"... People I want to meet: SHEP GORDON, JEFFREY TOOBIN, NOAH HAWLEY... Happy Birthday to BRENDAN LODER, MIKE HUSKINS, KIMBERLY TURCK, and AILEEN BUDOW. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Wired |
| On June 7, 2011, a local businessman addressed a meeting of the Cupertino City Council. He had not been on the agenda, but his presence wasn’t a total surprise. Earlier in the year the man had expressed his intention to attend a meeting in order to propose a new series of buildings along the city’s northern border, but he hadn’t felt up to it at the time. | | |
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 | Racked |
| ASOS stocks 85,000 styles on its site. Boohoo turns around collections in two weeks flat. And competitors are freaking out. | | |
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 | Lawfare |
| "The Washington Post" this afternoon published a stunning story reporting that President Trump disclosed highly-classified information to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during their visit to the Oval Office last week. | | |
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 | WSJ |
| The Wall Street Journal's Amol Sharma and Suzanne Vranica talk with Fox's head of ad sales, Joe Marchese, about marketers' perception of TV ads versus digital ads and how he hopes to change the equation. | | |
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 | Harvard Business Review |
| Why high potentials struggle--and how they can grow through it. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| The president is crazy. What’s everyone else’s excuse? | | |
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 | Andreessen Horowitz |
| In this lively conversation -- from our recent annual tech and policy summit in Washington, D.C. -- Axios' Dan Primack interviews a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen about the two major narratives dominating discussions about the tech industry right now: the industry is building stupid stuff; and tech is “evil” (or at least has an outsized impact, is destroying jobs). | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| “Verified Fan” fights scalper bots to make those Harry Styles tickets easier to snag-but there’s still room for improvement. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| One of the many problems with "Alien 3" was its lack of escalation. But there’s an alternate universe where the series’ propulsive momentum only increased. | | |
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 | AlterNet |
| Trapped between a police state and Al Qaeda, average Syrians explain why they fear regime change. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| In a conversation with Yahoo Sports, Jones addressed his place in baseball today, the ugly incident at Fenway Park in which a fan berated him with the N-word, Curt Schilling’s belief Jones made up the story, and how baseball is a white-man’s sport. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| The world’s biggest tech companies might be bigger than you think. | | |
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 | TEDx Talks |
| For generations, record collectors have played a vital role in the preservation of musical and cultural heritage by “digging” for obscure music created by overlooked artists. These music "archeologists" are consumed by a desire to give these records a second chance at being heard and appreciated. | | |
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 | The Intercept |
| The FBI spent almost a year making a fake documentary, trying to get Cliven Bundy, his family, and their supporters to incriminate themselves on tape. | | |
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 | Technologist |
| The ability to modify sequences of DNA with pinpoint precision promises new drugs, healthier livestock and better crops. But gene editing also carries risks and raises serious ethical concerns. | | |
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 | Stanford Graduate School of Business |
| Data scientists know all your secrets. | | |
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 | The Telegraph |
| Reality finally caught up with Bernie Madoff on December 11, 2008. | | |
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 | The Media Briefing |
| "The Lawyer" is one of Centaur’s specialist titles, and over the past few years, has undergone a significant transformation from a free site and circulation magazine into a paid-for subscriptions product. | | |
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 | Music Business Worldwide |
| Jimmy Iovine talks Apple, Spotify, 'free' music, Interscope and much more. | | |
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 | Nieman Journalism Lab |
| "Mobility is a crucial factor in our identity. I believe that sort of fundamental optimism of American identity is running out of gas...That fundamentally shifts our national character." | | |
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 | BBC Future |
| You feel somebody is looking at you, but you don’t know why. The explanation lies in some intriguing neuroscience and the study of a strange form of brain injury. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| "Twin Peaks," "Game of Thrones," and the identity of Luke's father. All secrets that had to be protected. | | |
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 | YouTube |
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